Would You Trade Tracy for the #1 pick in the draft?

not so sure about blake griffin, but i would absolutely trade t-mac for a high draft pick. if any team is stupid enough to do that. would you throw away a potential franchise prospect for a crumbling career?

 

I think its to early to evaluate this team for the future right now and what to do with Macy.

See how the rest of the season goes, see how the playoffs goes. Resign Artest for the right money, if all goes well for the rest of the regular season and the post season. We don't have to do anything with Macy, the team wins either way. Either we get a good package for him or we let him walk and his money is off the books for the best free agent year of all-time.

The current team is good and is has a good chance to be scary in the playoffs. I think the next time we talk about what to do with Macy and the state of the team, should be in the off season.

 

Man, i swap t-mac for the #1 pick straight up, whatever else come is a bonus.

 

I'm just trying to figure out why a cellar dweller team would give up a lottery pick plus a marquee player for Tmac. You can figure they would trade talent locked into a long term contract for Tracy's expiring contract, but not talent AND a draft pick - doesn't make sense. Any rebuilding team would keep the draft pick unless they felt they were getting more talent in return(clearly not Tmac) or felt they were adding a missing piece to a contender(clearly not the teams who will have high draft choices this year now that Isiah is no longer giving away 1st rd picks to savy GMs).

Of course Houston would jump at the chance to get a star+ a high draft pick for Tmac but I don't think any team is THAT desperate to mortgage both short and long term investments for an expiring deal unless they felt they had a legit shot at Lebron, Wade, or Bosh in 2010. You just can't sell the fan base on the value of Tmac's expiring deal(because he holds little on court value now) unless it's to get a BIG marquee player in FA. Maybe Washington or the Clippers trade Baron or Arenas or Butler for Tmac's expiring deal(assuming numbers work out), but I think the market for star+high draft pick are slim to none...maybe bad contract non star+high draft pick is a possibility or star+second rounder or low first rounder.

The only team that might bite would be the Nets and it would be Tmac for Carter+mid first rounder+filler and ONLY if the Nets got really desperate thinking they were going to be stuck with Carter's contract during the summer of Lebron but given they rebuffed Houston several times at the trade deadline this year, I doubt they get that desperate in the offseason.

 

I dont think a draft pick is gonna help us. We will get a raw player who won't meet his potential for a few years. We are basically in win now mode for the most part. We have maybe 3 years of great Yao left, and a VERY solid foundation if we resign Artest, top 4 in the west atleast for the next few years.

With that said, we have to try and turn McGradys 20+ million into something tangabile and then we can be VERY dangerous.

So what does this team need? I believe in a star, the most important general traits we need are everything McGrady isnt - ie healthy, hustle guy, shooter and defender. I don't think we need another slasher or post up player.

Im fairly happy with Artest, Battier and Yao starting at the 2,3 and 5. Brooks and Scola are solid, but could stand to be upgraded, especially if we have 20 million freeing up. I am not a fan of getting someone just because you can. I am more of a fan of getting the right person(s).

So if we targeted a 1 or 4, heres what I would want:

PG: shooter, defender, low turnovers, hustle
PF: lengthy, defender, rebounder, blocks shots, hustle

I am praying for Bosh personally. This frees up Landry or Scola to be moved while still keeping an extremely solid PF slot.

AB/Lowry/Barry
Artest/Wafer/Barry
Battier/Artest
Bosh/Scola/Landry
Yao/Deke

Is about as solid as I think we can feasibly get.

 

READING COMPREHENSION FTL...!

 

Couldnt even bring myself to read this thread. Who would be stupid enough to give us the #1 pick for McGrady.

 

I guess you did not read the post before commenting

 

were you hanging out with Dunleavy before you made this thread?

 

Why everyone here think that all teams would gladly take our junk and give us their best..?

McGrady is worth nothing right now, just an expiring contract, and expiring contracts never get you top picks, great players get you that. But T-Mac is just a expiring.

I would say the best we can get for T-Mac is mid level player (someone like Mo Williams) via sign and trade. Plus a filler, if the filler is a bad contract maybe we can get a top 15 pick, but that´s it.

 

(Phone Rings)
"Hello, this is Morey." DM
"Is Mac available, well what you got." DM
(Long Pause)
(Covers the phone and whispers to Les)
mac for the #1
(Clears his throat)
"Ok, we'll take it." DM
(Hangs up and screams like a school girl)